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Overview:

The ES1640dc is whole-new product line developed by QNAP for mission-critical tasks and intensive virtualization applications. With Intel® Xeon® E5 processors, dual active controllers, ZFS, HPE Helion compatibility and fully supporting virtualization environments, the ES1640dc delivers "real business-class" cloud computing data storage. The ES1640dc features the brand-new QES operating system that allows almost limitless snapshots, block-level data deduplication, and thin provisioning with reclaim, assisting businesses in building the most cost-efficient VDI platform and storage for critical data. The ES1640dc provides the same user experience as the current QNAP NAS and QTS system, allowing business users to enjoy the easy learning curve and quickly deploy the system, and making it ideal for small and medium businesses with budget constraints or large-scale IT divisions coping with mission-critical tasks.

The ES1640dc is powered by two Intel® Xeon® E5-2400 v2 processors and features dual active-active controller architecture, ensuring businesses with nearly zero downtime high availability as the standby controller can quickly take over if one controller breaks down. The ES1640dc connects to the JBOD enclosure (EJ1600) via the dual path mini-SAS design to sustain continuous operations even if an external JBOD cable is disconnected. Designed around redundancy, the ES1640dc is the best realization of reliable enterprise storage for uninterrupted mission-critical enterprise tasks and productivity.

Features:

Dual controller NAS: high reliability and high availability

"Reliability" is the primary priority for mission critical business applications. The ES1640dc adopts dual active-active controllers to provide the most reliable base for business IT storage.

1. Dual active-active controller

If one controller fails, the other one will immediately take over to provide high availability with the least downtime.

7. Intel® Xeon® E5-2400 v2 series processor

8. Field-replaceable unit

Field-replaceable unit (FRU) applies not only to the controllers but also to the cooling fans, power supplies, and the BBU battery pack for C2F (Copy-To-Flash), providing a cost-effective way to maintain complex systems and to replace defective parts.

NVRAM cache reducing the risks of losing write cache data

To increase random write performance and reliability, the ES1640dc features NVRAM modules (DRAM Write Cache with Copy-to-flash) to protect write data. When data is written into NVRAM, there are dedicated backup battery units to protect writing to the cache, and at the same time the data is replicated to a backup controller, to achieve 100% data integrity. NVRAM-backed write cache in the dual-controller architecture presents high performance, fault-tolerant, and helps reduce flash SSD write amplification.

QES operating system combining ZFS file system

The ES1640dc features the brand-new QES (QNAP Enterprise Storage) operating system, which is based on the simple and efficient FreeBSD kernel and the ZFS file system that has been proven through years of experience to be most suitable for high-end enterprise applications. QES supports dual active controller architecture and remote disaster recovery, can be directly integrated into OpenStack® cloud environments, and is designed for intensive virtualization and VDI applications with optimal performance. Continuing the same user experience with the QTS operating system, QES provides business users with an easy learning curve to quickly deploy the ES1640dc, and provides the best storage solution jointly with the current QNAP NAS.

Overview of QNAP Enterprise ZFS NAS and the QES operating systems

QES
QNAP Enterprise System

QTS
QNAP Turbo NAS System

Hardware platform

Enterprise ZFS NAS
ES series NAS

QNAP Turbo NAS
TS / TVS / TAS / TDS series

Operating system kernel

FreeBSD

Linux

File system

ZFS

Ext4

myQNAPcloud

Yes

Yes

App support

Qmanager, Qfile

All available apps

File Station

Yes

Yes

App Station

No

Yes

Virtualization Station

No

Yes

Container Station

No

Yes

Dual active controller

Yes

No

NVRAM (Write to cache)

Yes

No

40G Ethernet network

Yes

Yes

Intel Quick Assist

No

Yes

Snapshot upper limit

65536

1024

Single LUN snapshot upper limit

65536

1024

Deduplication

Yes

No

Real time data compression

Yes

No

End-to-End Data Integrity

Yes

No

Application consistency

Snapshot Agent
VSS Hardware Provider
(QNAP NetBak Replicator)

Snapshot Agent
VSS Hardware Provider
(QNAP NetBak Replicator)

Remote disaster backup and recovery

SnapSync

Snapshot Replica

ZFS - the best file system for business data storage

The ES1640dc features ZFS, a combined file system and logical volume manager, to support various advanced functions for high-end enterprise storage, including powerful storage expansion, flexible storage pools, simplified management, high-performance SSD cache, nearly limitless snapshots and cloning, data deduplication, in-line compression and thin provisioning with reclaim for optimized utilization for virtual machine storage. ZFS is designed with a focus on data integrity, and uses its end-to-end checksums to detect and correct silent data corruption caused by hardware defects, bugs in firmware or metadata errors, effectively protecting user's data.

Deduplication and compression to maximize VDI storage performance

There could be over 90% duplicate data from OS images and applications that are spread over virtual desktops. The ES1640dc supports block-based data deduplication to optimize storage usage from redundant data. Deduplicated virtual desktops become easier to be cached to achieve optimal virtual desktop performance. In-line data compression helps shrink data size, further optimizing storage usage. For mastering storage in a virtualized environment, the ES1640dc provides businesses with the most cost-effective remote virtual desktop platform and mission-critical information warehousing.

Strong disaster recovery made by nearly limitless snapshots and SnapSync

The ES1640dc supports up to 65,536 snapshots for iSCSI LUN and shared folders. When executing a remote snapshot backup, it only needs to transfer changed data, and can use deduplication and compression to significantly reduce the amount of transferred data. The ES1640dc can provide remote backup SnapSync for snapshots at the shortest interval of every five minutes, fully supports VMware vCenter Site Recovery (SRM) technology, provides Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) for SRM, and provides enterprise-class remote backup & disaster recovery solution to fulfill business continuity.

Well-rounded backup solutions to secure data

QNAP Netbak Replicator is an easy-to-use and VSS-aware backup software, and helps businesses to create complete backups in datacenter and virtualization environments without needing to purchase expensive and complex commercial software. To build a QNAP Snap Agent and VSS Hardware Provider operating environment, all applications (including VSS Service, Requestor, Provider and QNAP Snap Agent) can be deployed with VSS-Aware applications on the same server, and the minimal requirements are only one ES1640dc and one server for it to be operational.

Storage for comprehensive virtualization applications

The ES1640dc is certified for VMware® vSphere 6.0, and is compatible with Microsoft® Hyper-V and KVM, benefiting flexible deployment and management in virtualization environments. The ES1640dc supports VMware VAAI and Microsoft ODX to increase performance by offloading server loading for ESXi server and Hyper-V respectively, and supports QNAP vSphere Client plug-in, Web plug-in and QNAP SMI-S provider with enhanced efficiency of operations and management in virtualization applications.

Compatible with HPE Helion for extending horizons to OpenStack cloud

As QNAP's first "OpenStack Ready" product line, the ES1640dc is not only suitable for virtualization and virtual desktop environments but also the best choice for cloud applications. QES supports OpenStack® Cinder and iSCSI Cinder Node drivers, and provides block-level storage space to virtual machines. It not only accelerates the deployment of virtual machines and enhances virtual machine image access efficiency through iSCSI, but it is also easier to integrate into commercial cloud storage platforms. QES can be easily coupled with HPE Helion* to provide simpler and more reliable private enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, to ensure that enterprises can still enjoy uninterrupted, highly available, highly-stable services in dense virtualized environments.

5 year warranty - Global warranty inclusive

QNAP's ES1640dc offers 5 year warranty with 3-year global warranty inclusive at no extra cost. This premier warranty demonstrates QNAP's attention to the essential business needs of continuous operations and non-interrupted services to their customers.

Featuring dual controllers, dual-loop architecture, the ES1640dc and the corresponding JBOD expansion enclosures all provide dual-channel (Dual Path) to tolerate single node failure. Even if an external JBOD cable is disconnected due to external damage to the mini-SAS cable, it can still run normally. This is essential for better intermachine data protection and capacity scalability.

The maximum total storage capacity available by connecting RAID expansion enclosures:

Remark:

The Enterprise ZFS NAS rack mount models comply with ANSI/EIA-RS-310-D rack mounting standards. Before purchasing the server racks for these models, please make sure the server racks conform to the following criteria:

Rack size

Mounting post width: ≥ 451mm

Panel width: ≥ 485mm

Mounting post depth: 609.6mm~914.4mm

The distance between two rack posts is 465mm (center-to-center measurement of the rack's square holes)

The optional rack kits for the Enterprise ZFS NAS rack mount models are compatible with both square-hole and round-hole server racks.

CAB-SAS10M-8088

CAB-SAS05M-8088

LAN-10G2T-U

RAM-16GDR3EC-RD-1600

16GB DDR3 RAM 1600MHz R-DIMM ECC

BBU-A01-2200MZH

Battery Backup Unit for NVRAM write cache

LSISS9252

SATA-to-SAS interposer board (Please purchase from Avago)

Utilities:

Various handy utilities are available for you to work smartly with your Enterprise ZFS NAS. These utilities help increase your productivity and make it absolutely easy with connecting the Enterprise ZFS NAS, setting up the system, data backup and synchronization, downloading files, and so on. Visit the Download center, find your Enterprise ZFS NAS model, and the list of available utilities are ready for you.

Qfinder Pro

Connect and set up NAS easily

Qfinder Pro is a utility, available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, to quickly find and access the Enterprise ZFS NAS over the LAN. Install the Finder on your computer, open it, and double click your Enterprise ZFS NAS name, and the login page is ready for you.

QNAP NetBak Replicator

Backup data on PC

The QNAP NetBak Replicator, provided with any Enterprise ZFS NAS unit free of charge, helps you easily back up files from Windows PC - entire disk drives, documents, pictures, music, videos, fonts, emails, and more - to the Enterprise ZFS NAS. The operation is very simple. You can do the backup task in just a few clicks using NetBak Replicator by the setting of real-time synchronization, scheduled backup and auto-backup from multiple PCs to the Enterprise ZFS NAS.

NetBak Replicator also supports backing up to a remote server via FTP and WebDAV through the Internet. Imagine that you can backup new photos whenever on vacation. Even you are away from home, the convenient backup supports your memories.

vSphere Client plug-in

Manage QNAP NAS within vSphere Client

The Enterprise ZFS NAS supports vSphere Client Plug-in that allows managing VMware datastores on the Enterprise ZFS NAS directly from the vSphere client console. In a large-scale server virtualization environment, management is centralized and straightforward. Administrators can easily control the status of the Enterprise ZFS NAS and datastores and create additional datastores to multiple ESXi hosts in just a few clicks.

QNAP Snapshot Agent

In QES, the Storage Manager's Snapshot function supports iSCSI LUNs to rapidly back up and restore data. When creating a LUN snapshot, QNAP Snapshot Agent for Windows Server or VMware vCenter allows the NAS to communicate with the remote server when taking snapshots and ensures Application-consistent LUN snapshots.

VSS Hardware Provider also allows NAS ROW (Redirect on Write) instead of Windows COW (Copy on Write) to increase backup efficiency and to offload the snapshot to the NAS for reducing the performance impact on the Windows server.